#poetry

Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#family

Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#family-farm #poem #poetry #sherman-alexie #short-poems

Yolculuk Üzerimize teyellenmiş yolculuklarımız var nehirler boyu yüzüyoruz hiçbir yere varmadan. Ceplerimizin içinde yumruklarımızı sıkıyoruz kan çanağı gözlerimiz büyütüyor bizi uyutmadan. Dikiş tutmuyor üzerimize teyellenen yollar hırs bürümüş gözlerimizdeki kandır bizi uyutan. ↗

— Mehmet Ali Çelikel

#life #poetry #friendship

النجوم تبرق، كذلك أحلامي ↗

— لطيفة الحاج

#poetry #dreams

لا أرى جناحا عليك لكنك دائما تحلق بعيدا ↗

— لطيفة الحاج

#poetry #dreams

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#dreams

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h! ↗

— Langston Hughes

#dream #harlem #poet #poetry #dreams

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #famous-authors #famous-poets #literacy #national-poetry-month

How do I learn to speak when silence is all I know? ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#hope #poetry #dreams

One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile Coiled and gleaming to the end of space And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds To the last tooth of time, and the case closed. ↗

— John Ciardi

#time #dreams